Wringer



Patented June 9, 1925.

UNITED STAT orno M. corn, or TABENTUM, rnnnsrtvenm.

Wis-mesa.

Application filed January 30, 1922. Serial No. 532,758.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Orr-Io M. Own, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tarentum, in the county of Allegheny and the State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Invention in lVringers, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to clothes wringers.

The buttons on clothes when run through wringers as ordinarily constructed are liable to be either torn from the clothes or broken by the compression rolls of the wringcr, owing to the fact that a large proportion of them enter between the compression roll at an improper angle with relation to the line of travel of the clothes through the rolls. I have found that if the buttons are laid flat before entering the rolls, the tendency to tear them from the clothes or to break them is reduced to a minimum and an object of this invention is to provide a wringer in the operation of which, the buttons on clothes prior to their entrance between the wringer rolls are automatically adjusted and arranged so as to enter the rolls in a position to minimize the crushing of the buttons'or the tearing of them from the clothes.

A further object of this invention is to provide a wringer combining in its make-up a button adjuster and safety guard, whereby the hands of the operator will be prevented from passing into the compression rolls.

These, as well as other objects which will readily appear to those skilled in this particular art, I attain by means of the device described in the specification and illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming part of this application.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View in elevation of a wringer embodying this invention and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view in sectional elevation of said wringer taken on line 22 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

The wringer, so far as the frame or housing is concerned may be of ordinary construction, employing upright end members 33 slotted to receive bearings blocks 4 and 6 for journaling the compression rolls 7 and 8 of the wringer. A compression spring 9 of usual construction securedto a follower bar 10 and having its ends 11l1 bearing on the blocks 4 -4- is also utilized. The spring tension is adjusted by means of adjustment screws 1212 in the ordinary way.

the end posts 3 of the wringer and within these brackets two rollers 17 and 18 have their reduced ends 19 and 20 journaled. The upper roller 17 is positioned inside of the lower roller 18. A flexible soft rubber belt- 21 passes around lower compression roll 8 and lower roller 18, while a similar belt 29 passes around upper compression roll 7 and upper roller 17 The adjacent runs of the belts contact between points 23 and 24 which is the arc of a circle defined by a line passing through the axes of the compression rolls 7 and 8 and a vertical line passing through the axis of compression roll 8. Of course, this line of contact between the belts will be slightly greater than the are between these two lines, owing to the compression of the belts between the compression rollers.

The endless belts between their forward ends and forward line of contact where point-23 is located are spaced apart one from the other as shown in Fig. 2, so as to provide an entrance or opening for the clothes or other material to be wrung. Owing to the position of roller 17 with relation to roller 18, it will be apparent that the operators hands cannot be pinched, because the upper run of belt 21 below roller 17 will yield. The adjacent run of the belts or conveyors converge from the opening below roller 17 to the forward edge of the contact surface and the conveyors thus form yielding means for carrying the clothes or other material to the compression rolls and function to simultaneously, yieldingly and progressively compact the clothes or material. In thus yieldingly and progressively compacting the material, the buttons are automatically adjusted or arranged and caused to pass between the compression rolls at the proper angle.

The compression rolls 7 and 8 will preferebly be formed of wood or composition suitably waterproofed and rollers 17 and 18 will likewise preferably be formed of wood or other suitable waterproofed material.

The endless belts or conveyors are preferably made of soft seamless rubber about three-sixteenths of an inch thick and thus afford all of the resiliency operating inconjunction with the compression spring 9, that is necessary for proper wringing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is i 1. In awringer, upper and lower compression rolls having their axes vertically ofl'set, an endless belt driven by said lower roll, a roller around which said belt passes DIOUIIlLQCl lH front of said. lower roll, an endless belt driven by said upper roll and a roller around which said belt passes mounted in front of said upper roll and in spaced relation to said first named roller so that said belts converge from said rollers to said compression rolls.

2. In a Wringer, upper and lower co1npression rolls having their axes vertically offset, an endless belt driven by said lower roll a roller around which said belt passes Inounted in front of said lower roll, an endless belt driyen by said upper roll and a roller around which said belt passes mounted in front of said upper roll in spaced and vertically offset relation to said first na ned roller so that said belts converge from said rollers to said compression rolls.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 25th day of Jan,

OTHO M. OTTE. 

